Who or What Is the Holy Spirit?

[Smart_Guy]

Dud! Are you still offending people? J/K Smart Guy. Nothing you say can ever be deemed offensive.You remind me of those nice people in the movie National Lampoons European Vacation.No matter what the Grizzwall's did, everyone was super nice.Watch,it's super funny.Lol...

I guess it is just me. I worry too much for people's feeling that what I say could at worse cases be misunderstood wrong.

I appreciate what you just said. Thanks man

 

[`mud]

Well Bible, I kind of agree. But father Vargo and some of the Nuns used to say otherwise.
Depending on whether or not one went to confession on Saturday, 'hail mothers' and stuff,
and some 'our fathers', round that rosary we went.
Sooooooo.......church on Sunday for the host !
~
'mud

 

[URAVIP2ME]

I guess the Father is God, the creator, the Holy Spirit is the Arch Angel Gabriel, and the Son is Jesus...
Am I making any sense?

You may want to note in Scripture there is only one Archangel and it's: Michael.
- 1st Thessalonians 4 v 16 - and Michael is Not Gabriel

 

[URAVIP2ME]

I am 52 and I have never heard an explanation by priests or the Catholic Church as to who or what the Holy Spirit is?
Have you? Please educate me.
Spruce

First of all, the English language is Not very comprehensive, and the Bible was mostly written in the comprehensive Hebrew language.

In English we use the word spirit in different ways:
Besides using spirit in connection to angels, ghosts or spooks we can think of pep rallies designed to create lively school spirit. Or we can think of a lively high-spirited horse.

We don't think of spirits as filling a person [ unless perhaps it's 100 proof ]
Those at Acts 2 v 4 will filled with God's holy spirit. Not filled with a person.

Even Noah Webster replaced the word ghost with the word spirit because spirit does Not mean an apparition.

Unlike God and Jesus always in the masculine sense, God's spirit is: neuter.
Please notice Numbers 11 vs 17and 25 [KJV ] uses the neuter word ' it '.
God's spirit is a force or energy that God uses as He put His spirit upon them.
- Psalm 104 v 30

KJV also uses the word ' itself ' in connection to God's spirit at Romans 8 vs 16,26

In Greek grammar rules it is proper to address the masculine although a neuter.
Even in English we can call a neuter ship or car addressed as ' she' although neuter.

So, God's spirit is His active force to accomplish things - Psalm 104 v 30
We don't see invisible wind but we can see what wind accomplishes.
God's invisible spirit helps Christians accomplish the spreading of the good news of God's kingdom to the ends of the earth - Acts 1 v 8; Matthew 24 v 14

 

[Smart_Guy]

You may want to note in Scripture there is only one Archangel and it's: Michael.
- 1st Thessalonians 4 v 16 - and Michael is Not Gabriel

Thank you for the heads up.

That was an honest mistake of me, sorry.

 

[`mud]

I think Gabriel blew his horn when Michael appeared at Mary's bed after the blast of the horn subsisted and he whispered something in her ear. Somehow she got knocked up then, no one knows how !
I'm probably wrong like Smart_Guy but I try, and I am trying !!
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'mud